fans. the fragrance smells like freshly based hand tossed dough. >>> coming up, newark mayor cory booker lives on food stamps. >>> the nfl steps in for jovan belcher's 4 month old daughter. plus high resolution images from space. it uses techniques that allows the images such as city laws, aur rar ras, wildfires, and moonlight be seen by the naked eye. >>> stories making news across america on this thursday. in washington state, a 35-year-old relationship was officially legitimized a short time ago as the clock struck 12:00 out west. they became the first same sex couple to receive a marriage license in the evergreen state, a fitting honor for the couple who was featured in the ad campaign to legalize same-sex marriage. >>> newark new jersey mayor core rebooker is gearing up for his food stamp challenge. he will be on a steady diet of beans and vegetables and whatever else he can afford living on $35 of food stamps. he took on the challenge after getting into a debate with one of his twitter followers. >>> north of the border they suited up for the sled hockey. team u.s.a. earned

. he'll then head to new york. >>> chick peas and lettuce, that's all he's eating for breakfast. newark mayor booker is now into the third day of living on food stamps. now until december 12th he agreed to eat only what he could buy for $4 a day. this idea came from a twitter conversation he had with a woman. >>> people in the u.s. can now travel to cuba. president barack obama eased restrictions earlier this year but the tourists still can't come and go as they please. there are still restrictions on what they can see and what they can do. it's been put in place by the u.s. government. >>> the voices will be back in baltimore this weekend. we're talking about the joyous voices of the acappella caroling group. they're going to perform at the walters' art museum on sunday. it will take place in the afternoon and filled with hot cocoa and a lot of holiday goodies. the concert runs from 1:00 until 4:00 sunday afternoon. >>> this time last year u.s. military personnel were deployed to iraq and afghanistan. now many are spending christmas with their families for the first time in years and a

honor for the couple. they were featured in the ad campaign to legalize same sex marriage. >>> newark mayor in new jersey corey booker is gearing up for his food stamp challenge. it starts tuesday. booker is going to be on a steady diet of beans and vegetables and whatever else he can afford living on $30 worth of food stamps for the week. the mayor took on the challenge after getting into a debate with one of his twitter followers. >>> and finally, just north of the border, a few military vets suited up for team usa at the world sledge hockey challenge despite the inspiring stories of lost limbs and sacrifice, it was team canada that beat the americans 2-1. however, team usa did earn enough wins for a spot in the semifinals. >>> in sports, we're going to tip off in the nba. bobcats and knicks with three seconds left, new york's j.r. smith took the inbound pass and hit a fallaway jumper from the left. a dramatic buzzer beater for a 100-98 win in char lot. kobe bryant is the only fifth player in league history to score over 30,000 points. he's the youngest player to reach that mileston

in the ad campaign to legalize same-sex marriage. >>> newark, new jersey, mayor co cory booker is gearing up for a food stamp diet. he will be living on $30 worth of food stamps for the week. the mayor took on the challenge after getting into a debate with one of his twitter followers. >>> north of the border a few military vets suited up for team u.s.a. despite their inspiring stories of lost limbs and sacrifice, team canada beat the americans 2-1. however, team u.s.a. earned enough wins for a spot in the semifinals. >>> sports, tipoff in the nba, bobcats and nicks, with three seconds left new york's j.r. smith took the inbounds pass and hit a following jumper for the left side for a dramatic buzzer beater, 100-90 win over charlotte. >>> in new orleans the lakers kobe bryant scored 29 points to become only the fifth player to score over 30,000 points. he is the youngest player to beat that milestone. >>> nfl wide receiver andre johnson, number 80 of the houston texans took a dozen at-risk children on an 80 second shopping spree at toys"r"us. can you imagine how fun that would be?

authorized soon so that we can start construction. but as a kid in the 50's in newark, new jersey, i was, shall we say, a little fey, a little high strung, my mother used to say. i guess like a moth to the flame attracted all kinds of undesirable attention including from some of the teachers. we had a football/history teacher who just loved tormenting me, surrounding me with other members of the football team, some who i got to know a little better later, if you understand my drift. the point was there was no place to go. you felt so shamed when you were being bullied or when you were being exposed. i didn't want to talk to my parents, they were hard-working, i didn't want to burden them with that so i kept it inside for a very long time. there's a book out about keeping things inside like your orientation or whatever and they say that when you have ghost wounds. you don't see anything but they are there from that kind of experience. so when i got to a place where i could actually do some kind of beneficial act around this issue of bullying, i listened closely to many of the horror s

for another 30 minutes towards the newark fremont area. >>> 5:32 developing news from contra costa county. detectives are working to identify a body found near i-680 in pleasant hill. terry mcsweeney is live there. what is the latest? >> reporter: right across the street from me is where the body was found in the bushes. you will notice a blue object, silver object, shopping cars evidence of a homeless camp don't know if that has anything to do with this homicide. pictures from last night, you see deputies and a lot trying to figure out what happened to this individual. what we are hearing this morning is not much. they are being tight-lipped, waiting to get official word as to where investigation stands this is a busy area, concord avenue and of course the 680 on-ramp busy and 680 right here this is where the body was found last evening the investigation underway. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> this morning san francisco police and arson investigators are trying to determine the cause of a deadly house fire. it started 8:40 last night on st. charles in ingleside heights. an off-d